Installation help Homebridge

[Endlessknight]

Hi there!
Could you provide some install information for someone who is all new to this? I was able to install the Homebridge plugin and the accessory is in my home app...other then that...it doesn't control my dream screen.
Do I need to install Dreamscreencommander too? How do I install it?

Thanks for your help!

[ToracX]

Hey,

Did you make sure you set the right ip adress?
You can find it in the original dreamscreen app.

[Endlessknight]

hey there, yes the IP Adress is correct as it's shown in the App.

[ToracX]

Are you getting any errors? If so please share.
Maybe enable debug mode.
Does switching video modes and brightness using the dreamscreen app work?

Also, next time submit homebridge related issues here: https://github.com/ToracX/homebridge-dreamscreen/issues

[Endlessknight]

sorry, will do so 👍
so in the log I can see that home bridge changes the status internally but not in the dream screen app or the dream screen itself
debug mode? is that somewhere in the dream screen app?

[ToracX]

Debug mode is explained here:
https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/wiki/Basic-Troubleshooting

Have you tried the python script manually?

[Endlessknight]

that's the thing^^ how do I do that? ^^ sorry totally new to this

[ToracX]

Download the python script, for example with: git clone https://github.com/ToracX/DreamScreenCommander
Open the directory the .py file is in and run: python dreamscreen.py -i 192.168.x.x -m 0
Make sure the ip is correct

[Endlessknight]

~/DreamScreenCommander $ python dreamscreencommander.py -i 192.168.178.43 -m 0
File "dreamscreencommander.py", line 100
print "There was an error in your IP's length"
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("There was an error in your IP's length")?

[ToracX]

~/DreamScreenCommander $ python dreamscreencommander.py -i 192.168.178.43 -m 0
File "dreamscreencommander.py", line 100
print "There was an error in your IP's length"
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("There was an error in your IP's length")?

No, the plugin is based on Python2 not 3.
Try: python2 dreamscreencommander.py -i 192.168.178.43 -m 0

[Endlessknight]

Nothing happened

[ToracX]

Nothing happened

If it doesn't print any errors it means the script succeeded.
Check you're dreamscreen if it changed modes.

[Endlessknight]

still in sleep mode after I executed it

[ToracX]

Then the problem might be somewhere between the pi / machine and dreamscreen, and not in my script.
You could try setting you're dreamscreen to an static IP.
And try to set it in to ambient mode and then change color via python.

[Endlessknight]

sadly nothing......static IP Adress for the Dreamscreen and Pi, the Dreamscreen app works fine but the code does nothing

[ToracX]

Thats pretty weird, it would throw up an error if there was something wrong.
Mine works flawlessly.

I'm going to think about it an solution.